OpenStack Kilo on Ubuntu 14.04.2 – Configure Neutron #1

OpenStack Networking allows you to create or attach interface device to networks, this guide helps you to configure Neutron (Networking) on OpenStack environment. Neutron manages all networking related things that are required for Virtual Networking Infrastructure, it provides the networks, subnets, and router object abstractions.

Install and configure controller node:

Before we configure Neutron service, we must create a database, service, and API endpoint.

Login as the root into MySQL server.

# mysql -u root -p

Create the neutron database.

CREATE DATABASE neutron;

Grant a proper permission to the neutron database.

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON neutron.* TO 'neutron'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON neutron.* TO 'neutron'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';